Faye Delia Meetze

Faye Delia Rhoden Meetze, 90, of Chapin, South Carolina, passed away peacefully at home on Friday, June 13, 2025, surrounded by her loving family.



A memorial service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, June 20, 2025, at Temples-Halloran Funeral Home. The family will receive friends following the service.



A native of Lexington, Faye was born on December 27, 1934, to the late William Judson and Delia Hallman Rhoden, Sr. She was a graduate of Lexington High School. After raising three children and a career as an Executive Secretary with Farm Bureau Insurance Company, she left and started a second career studying art and becoming an accomplished artist. She was a founding member of the Crooked Creek Art League and participated in numerous statewide competitions where she received awards for her work in colored pencils, pastels, and oil. She was named the league’s outstanding member in 1999 and awarded the “CCAL Best in Show” in 2004. She also worked with the South Carolina State Fair Fine Arts exhibits each year setting up the show as well as competing in it.



She loved spending time with her six grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. In later years she fed the local deer population by putting out corn on a daily basis and watching them as they grazed on corn or the many figs on the huge fig tree. She kept many bird feeders in the yard full of treats for the birds. Making her own peanut butter suet cakes for them which were refilled each day. She took great joy in watching the many hatchings of blue birds each year from the blue bird houses as the parents taught their young to eat from the suet cakes.



In addition to her parents, Faye was predeceased by her loving husband of seventy-one years, Marion Lavern Meetze, who just recently passed away on March 23, 2025; sisters, Marcell Madeux, Beuna Beaton, Wilma Schwier, Betty Leavens and Ethelene Phillips; a brother, William Judson Rhoden, Jr; and two sons-in-law, John Andrew Meetze, Jr. and Kerry D. Davidson. She is survived by her daughters, Donna M. Faircloth (Ronnie) of Chapin and Joye M. Davidson of West Columbia; and her son, Marion Michael Meetze (Nancy) of Youngstown, Ohio. She is also survived by six grandchildren; John Andrew Meetze, III (Kim), Brandy F. Kaiser (Kevin), Christie M. Jeffcoat (Wayne), Melissa M. Hill (Travis), Nikki Meetze, and Hillary M. Campbell (Ethan); Donny Davidson; and eleven great-grandchildren.



Faye is, and will continue to be, deeply missed by all who love her.



The family would like to thank MSA Hospice and Hospice Nurse, Brandi Harvey, for her compassionate support and care of both of our parents.